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Test 4 · ★ · Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends

Grandma and Uncle have not spoken for months after a politics row. What would happen if they agreed to talk about other things?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandma · What happens: not speak, happen, agree, talk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 15 «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: Grandma and Uncle have not spoken for months after a politics row.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoken	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Uncle	cc
3	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grandma	conj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 spoken	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 spoken	advmod
6	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 months	case
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spoken	obl
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 row	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 row	det
11	politics	politics	NOUN	Number=Ptan	12 row	compound
12	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoken	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spoken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	present · perfect	Grandma and Uncle				after a politics row; month		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What would happen if they agreed to talk about other things?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 agreed	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 agreed	nsubj
6	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 talk	mark
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 agreed	xcomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 things	case
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 things	amod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 talk	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	agree speech: agree a condition, not said to happen	past	Grandma						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	Grandma not said here					about other things	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

They might make up and the family barbecues could come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 make	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 come	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 barbecues	det
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 barbecues	compound
8	barbecues	barbecue	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 come	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	might	They						vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	come back	could	the family barbecues						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The election would be cancelled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 election	det
2	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cancelled	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cancelled	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 cancelled	aux:pass
5	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cancel	would · passive		the election					tree rules

Option 3

Nothing could ever change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 change	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 change	advmod
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	could	Nothing				ever		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They would have to vote the same way from now on, or the talking would not count

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 vote	mark
5	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vote	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 now	case
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 vote	advmod
11	on	on	ADV	_	10 now	fixed
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 count	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 count	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 talking	det
15	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 count	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 count	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 count	advmod
18	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	They						tree rules
2	vote	to-infinitive	They not said here	the same way					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
3	not count	would	the talking						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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